In 1881, Charles Darwin published his final work, a bestseller that rivaled his most well-known books at the time: " The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits."
This image of the pre-rational world is still widely held, reinforced by Charles Darwin's highly influential work, The Origin of Species, which established the doctrine of natural selection.
Nectar robbery, in which a bumblebee carves a hole in the side of a flower as a bank robber might cut his way into a vault, was discovered by Charles Darwin.
The British naturalist Charles Darwin said that no other animal has " played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organised creatures" .
For example, Charles Darwin was one of the first people to propose the idea that emotions were actually functional, that they served a purpose, but this functionality of emotions had gotten lost.